Barrel-machine.



No. 664,205. Patented Dec. l8,'l900'.:

.1. s. WRIGHT, 1n.

BARREL MACHINE.

(Application flled'Jan. 16, 1900.)

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Patented Dec. 18, 19005 J S WRIGHT JR BARREL MACHINE.

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A 77'0RNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT JOHN S. WRIGHT, JR, OF CHUROHLAND, VIRGINIA;

BARREL-MACHINE;

sreemcmoa forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,205, dated December 1s, 19cc. Application filed January 16, 1903 Serial No. 1,639. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN S. WRIGHT, J12, residing at Ghurchland, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to barrel-making machines, aud has for its object a machine of this character especially adapted for making truck-barrels.

The invention consists in certain details of construction and arrangement of the parts, which will be hereinafter specifically described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the bearing for the former. Fig; 3 is a vertical transverse section of the upper portion of the machine on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an end view. Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating one of the intermediate rims of the barrel-form, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the barrel-form proper.

My improved machine comprises astan dard or base A, suitably supported above the ground or floor and having at each end seg mental bearing-plates a, in which frictionrollers a are mounted. Mounted on the base A is the barrel-form B, which consists of end rims B and B U-shaped in cross-section and fitted on the friction-rollers a',with their side flanges overlapping the ends of the rollers, and intermediate rims O and D, both of which are T-shaped in cross-section and of which the rim C has its perpendicular flange Oprovided with a series of cogs or teeth, as shown particularly in Fig. 3. All of the rims above mentioned are rigidly connected together by rods E, which extend through the horizontal or base portion of the end rims B and B and through the perpendicular annular flanges of the rims O and D, and said rods are arranged alternately, one being connected to the rims C and D and the end rim B, while the next to it is connected to the intermediate rimsG and D and the opposite end rim B Each one of the rims is made in three sections or segments, of which two are connected by hinges or pivots to each end of the intermediate or third one, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, and the end rims B and B are provided at their free ends with a suitable fastening device, which is, as illustrated, a latch B on the end of one section adapted for engagement with a pin B on the opposite end of the other section. In this manner the form B may be thrown open, as illustrated in the detail View Fig. 5, to receive hoops of the bar rel when the form is closed, and the latches B engage with the pins B to hold the form in closed position. The barrel-staves and braces are then placed in position inside of the hoops, and the operators nail the staves, and the nails are clenched by their points striking the inner faces of the rims,with each of which ahoop is in alinement.

In order to rotate the form for the purpose of bringing the unfastened staves next to the bed or base of the machine in position for nailing and clenching, I make the rim 0 with teeth or cogs, as above described, and mount on a suitable shaft secured below the base A a pinion F, meshing with the teeth of said rim, as shown in Fig. 3. On the same shaft I fulcrum the lever G, whichis provided with a double pawl G, adapted to engage the pinion F'and rotate it and the barrel-form in either direction by the movement of the lever. To depress the lever, a link H is connected thereto and at its other end is secured to a treadle I, which is pivoted to a suitable base-block J. Thelever is retracted or raised by a spring .K, secured to the side of the base A, as shown in Fig. 3. Now as the work progresses an operator works the treadle with his foot, causing the form to rotate as slowly or rapidly as may be required by the width of the staves used, the object sought being to rotate the barrel-form always into such a position that the nailing of the staves may be effected by driving the nails toward the rigid frame or base upon which the form rests, thereby obviating the tendency of the form to be driven from its bearings.

As illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, my improved form has important advantages over forms intermediate rims formed with perpendicular annular flanges, and connecting-rods passed through the base or horizontal portion of the end rims and through the annular flanges of I5 the intermediate rims, said rods being alternately arranged substantially as shown and described.

JOHN S. WRIGHT, JR. Witnesses:

J AS. A. REDD, PAUL REDD. 

